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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-19
OF THE GREATEST USE.

"A Feature of Secretary Whitney's Reform
i'm the Naval Department Commended
by a Straight-Out Republican journal.
A Washington report says that the
Navy Department is considering plans
for establishing naval reserve like
that of Great Britain. 1t is proposed
to pay an annual bounty or subsidy to
the owners of steam vessels now exist
ing or hereafter to be built, which may
be pronounced suitable for auxiliary
cruisers of the first or second class by
a board of navy officers appointed to
examine them. In return for this
bounty, the vessel is to lie made capa-
BILE of receiving two or more guns, and
the owner to agree that she will ALWAYS
be held subject to regular inspection,
and will be put at the disposition of
the Government temporarily OF per-
manently, on demand. at compensa-
ton to be determined beforehand by
referees Jointly appointed by the Secre-
tary of the Navy and the owners
A plan for enrolling officers and
crews for the vessels so constructed has
also been suggested. 1t fixes the term
of service of those who enlist at five
years. with grades and ratings like the
regular navy, and also with pay like
the navy while engaged in drill and in
struction or active service. 1t is be
lieved that this feature would be en-
Enthusiastically received by yachtsmen,
who would enjoy Government uniform
and naval rank, and that many water
men and fishermen would be found
ready for enrolment. especially if the
times of training were so fixed as not
to interfere with their ordinary work.
The British Royal Naval Reserve has
80. 900 men enrolled in this manner.
They drill four weeks in each year, and
their number may be increased by the
enrolment of seafaring men, if their
services should be required in time of
actual hostilities.
There is no doubt that this plan, if
adopted. would attract the attention of
those fitted for service in naval war;
fare, and that in case of a sudden out
break of war the reserve would be Of
the greatest use and value in improvis,
ing . navy.-C1aGago Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-19
RIGHTEOUS WRATH.

A PeaOeable COIOred Mans Emphatic OBJ
Jections to- "A Shower-Bath.
al Spite ter see er white pussun meek
er fool o. hisse'f,'' said "A bench-leggcd
negro, who. '.batting" his eyes with
that slow movement of contempt which
the negro so well understands, stood
leaning on a goods box
whats the matter now?' some ono
asked. at seems that you are always i'll
trouble"
WHO isP' turning upon his ques-
toner AMI batting his eyes slower
than ever.
You"
Eyer amt sho'ly talkin' ter me, sab.
fur 1 nebber has no trouble widout
some pusson comes er shown il on me-
Gwine down yander jes now an er
blame white man come er squirtin' WA
ter on me wild his ole Ingun rubber
pipe. Want dom er thing ter him
gwine alaung tendin' ter mer own buz-
ness, when he come or squnrtin' dat wa
ter on me; an it wasn't wa M, nuther,
ken tell yer dat
What had You done?"
Done nuthin'. tells yer. Went er
laung by his old stO' whar da WIZ or
pilin' up er Lotto hangs jOwls, an think
in ter merse'f dat dad go fust rate wild
er lot o. greens L picked up one o de-
blame things an gunter famine it, an
he squirted his ole water on me.
amt 'roun' piekin' up jowls,' he con-
tinued, taking his hat by the brim and
shaking the water off. Loot plenty o
iowls at home. de Lawd knows. Makes
me mad ter see er pussOn make or fool
o. hisse'f. i doan kere if he is white
Come CT sguirfin' his ole water Oh me-"
-Ark19zsdt1 TrdreEer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-19
BRAZILIAN DOCTORS.
Their Charges Regulated by the Estimated
Value of Patients Life.

The BraZilians are an indO!ent peo-
pie, and lazily protest against improve
ments which are certain to disturb
their listless ways. Their Emperor,
Dom Pedro. stands alone among living
rulers for the extent of his scientific
attachments. and he devotes himself
with exceptional energy to every
branch of public affairs. He has in
spired some of the leading officials to
initiate his public spirit and energy.
But with the mass of his subjects he is
not popular. His industry shames
their indOlence; their shame irritates
instead of stimulating them, and they
murmur against the energetic ruler
who will not let things remain as they
are.
Brazilian doctors are as eccentric in
their charges as the people are in their
desire to enjoy the pleasure of being
let alone. The physicians do not reg
ulate their charges by the time and
labor they have expended in the pa
TENTS service, but by the estimated
value of his life. AS this value is de-
termined by the patients income, he,
if he survives, is treated by the doctor
as wreckers treat stranded ship-the
greater the value, the larger the sal
wage. A young English engineer.
while engaged in some work in the
vicinity of Rio, was attacked by yellow
fever. A doctor of good repute at
tended him, and on his recovery de-
manded fee of nine hundred dollars.
The young engineer demonstrated and
threatened to appeal to the courts. But
friends who had resorted to these
tribunals for redress, advised him to
have nothing to do with the law. He
acted upon their counsel and paid the
doctors bill.-Youtt's Companion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-19

BY the use of a carbide of iron and an
improved form of furnace, n resident
of New York is able to produce sodium
at a very low cost. If the inventor $
claims are found TO be correct in prac-
tice, it is difficult to estimate the i'm
portance of his invention. Cheap so
dunn means cheap aluminium, and
when once aluminium can be obtained
at low cost its applications will be
infinite. 1t must not be forgotten that
every clay bed is an aluminium mine.
-Chicago Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-19
DESERVING BLAINE.

The New York .Tribuue" Taclxing Away
firm the "SIagnetic Candidate" and the
Storms Which He Carries with Him.
Mr.. Whitelaw Ried has taken the
trouble to repeat his crafty denial of
knowledge of any letter from himself to
Murat Halstead Indicating an inten-
4ioc to abandon Blaine and favoring
Sherman for the Presidency in 1888.
As the public well knows. Mr.. Reid
persists in denying the first story con-
corning this letter which gave the
name OF Murat Halstead as the re-
ceiver of the letter. which. according
to a corrected account of the affair. was
addressed to Mr.. Halstead's partner,
. Richard Smith, of the Cincinnati Com
ntercial Gazette. Mr.. Halstead made
haste almost with profane heat to deny
that he had received any such letter.
and Mr.. Ried just rs promptly declared
that he had not written any such letter
to MIR. Halstead. But when the cor
Fection was made and the name of MIR.
Smith was given as the man to whom
the fatal letter was addressed, did Dea-
con Richard Smith make haste with
curses and Oaths to deny all knowledge
of it? Not much. He left Cincinnati
on business OPPORTUNITY to escape be-
ing interviewed.
But Mr. Reid is not the only one
who is engaged in conceaiing the
truth about his abandonment of Blaine.
The Chicago Tribune with its usual
sinaladroitness in such matters. has
taken a hand in the game. In its dis
patch purporting to give Mr.. Reds
official denial CT the letter it sought to
make it cover the charge that he chad
written a letter tn either Richard Smith
or Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati
Commercial. Gazette, abandoning Mr..
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-19

Mamma, didn't you tell me to do
just what baby wanted me TOP" asked
little Cass avenue boy who had been
left in charge of his baby brother.
Eyes, my DEAR replied his mother.
who had just come in. -tWeI, baby
wanted me to eat up all the sponge
cake, and now Flo's mad, because Mr..
Browns coming to tea and there amt
no cake" but baby can't eat cake"
mo, but it amused him to see me eat
it. "-Detro1 Tribune
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-19
-..If you can show me any signs OF

IF you can show me any signs of
natural gas on your farm I'll give you
a hundred dollars an acre." said a
speculator to an Ohio farmer. Haven't
any time to fool with it, was the re-
ply. You must be a very busy man."
Eyes, tolerably. I'm boring for oil
down in the swamps, the boys have
struck a salt-bed just back of the barn,
and the old woman's out with a witch
hazel rod locating a couple of coal
mines. We can't fool with gas afore
next year. "-WGH Street Nes0s.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-19

"A correspondent of Notes and Que
ries says there is little doubt that Dick
ems took the name of Pickwick from
Moses Pickwick," on many of the
stage coaches that piled between Bris-
toll and London sixty or seventy years
ago, and of which a man by that mans
was the proprietor.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-19

Wife Of n rich rural Californian at
her first grand dinner. The Colonel
offers his ARM am 10 have thu
pleasure Of taking you out to dinner.
Mrs. A" Rich Rural Wife-"Go long
with yOu; my husbands here; take
Your own wife outi''-PucE.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-19

"A pigs tail is OF no more use to the
pig than the letter ''p" in pneumonia
-Rarper's B0$0S.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-19

Young H0stess-..I must show you
my baby, Mr.. Brown; are you fond of
them?' Brown (absent-mindcd< Yes
oh. yes! But I haven't eaten any
laIslY'. Wooden Days.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-19

Mr.. BlaIne's European Tour and Return
Arranged Upon the Superstition That He
Is Great Man.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-15
A Seven Years Underground Fire.

A matter which should he Of interest
has recently hecn brought TO light here.
This is the fact that fire has been found
smoldering on the 1,G00-foot level Of the
California that has endured ever since a
fire broke out in that mine about seven
years ago. At that time the part Of the
mine in which the fire occurred was
sealed up by means Of bulkhead5. A drift
now shows that the fire is still alive. The
old timhrs have been slowly charring.
and in places where covered with a great
weight Of rocks and earth they have been
converted into what presents the appear.
ancc Of fair article Of bituminous coal.
This seems TO lie on account Of pitch in
the wood.
Some years ago there was brought to
this city piece of pitch pine taken from
an ordinary coal pit, one end Of which
appeared 10 I've genuine bitnminous coal.
This has been formed where there was
no great amount Of pressnr" upon il.
When 50 small an amount of fire as is in
the California mine is found TO endure
for seven years, should we he inCrc,lu.
lous when assured by men Of science that
the center of the earth, once a molten
mass of rock. still remains in molten
state after untold ages? How many
years the small bunch of fire in the Cali
fornia will still remain alive il is impos-
sible to say. The drift that cut into it
has been securely closed, and it will
probably be allowed to shoulder on for
another term Of Virginia City
New Letter.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-15
Wretchedse,. In LonIon,

The depth Of London's misery was
illustrated by two scenes witnessed re-
Gently. One was at Billingsgatc. where
gratuitolls distribution Of food was being
made. and the distributors were wisely
intrencbed behind iron bars. Drawny
men fought and struggled against the
bars for sodden pudding and muddy soup
until they we're torn and bleeding. while
women and children, who were unable TO
get near, sat on the curbstone and cried
hopelessly. Another was at a dinner
given by the St. Giles Christian mission,
where the criminal classes were invited
TO corie AMI satisfy their hunger. At
the door scores Of honest men, who had
never seen the inside Of prison, accused
themselves Of crimes OF all sorts in order
TO gain admission, only to be elected by
the attendants. who were not slow 10 dis.
cover the story OF fraud by the hungry,
honest faces and horny hands. London
Letter l. ..
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-15
Tuesday, March IS, 1887.

The history OF the live stock busi-
ness is long one and through all its
stages appears to be naturally prosper
ous. So far back as the days Of the
first parents Abel engaged in the live
stock industry, and prospered to such
an extent that his elder brother, Cain,
who had engaged In some other busi-
ness, slew him from envy. And from
that day to this large majority Of
those who have chosen the live stock
business have prospered and accumu.
lated and beel the envy and marvel OF
those engaged in other callings. But
one csnnot be considered in the live
stock business from the ownership OF
few scrawny cattle or horses or i'll
favored sheep or swine. The propsga-
tion OF these no more entities one to
be classed as a live stock producer
than the keeper of . peanut stand can
claim to be . merchant. Wherever
there has been failure Of satisfaction
II has been due to the fact that the
person has not really entered into the
actual bus uess, bat has been hanging
around upon the borders, contenting
himself with any kind of stock and
any system of management, doing a
little Of that and many things, and
nothing rs it should be. Men are not
slain nowadays because they 90 into
stock and prosper above their neigh.
bors, and there is every inducament
for getting the best descriptions OF
stock and making ones prosperity as
sure and conspicuous rs possible
Stock Exchange.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-15

DR.. Fleming says an incandesceut
lamp is not only useful thing, hut il has
about il many points Of great interest in
physics. Many persons had the ilnpres-
sion that the interior of glow lamp was
place that was empty of all air parti.
cles, but this was not the case; il was all
full as it well could be. Maxwell had
shown that in small cube of i-lO0,O 900
Of an inch there would be found l00,-
900, 900 molecules of ordinary air. so that
in cubic inch Of air there were q num-
her Of molecules represented by 100, ,0OO.-
0O0, ,00O, ,0O0, 900. In Swan lamp when
exhausted 10 one -millionth of an atmos-
phere, there remained some 400. .000, ,000.-
900 molecules Of air. As il took about
ten days 10 count a million. simple cal
culation would show that 10 count the
number of molecules in such vacuum
would take 120, 900 years Of continual
counting. Scientific American.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-15
Grinds n Man Like Emery.

Men who are tempted to make money
suddenly are almost invariably Obliged to
traverse the canons of morality. 1t is
almost impossible that they should keep
themselves to moderation. The fatal
fire legins TO burn within them. Ayarice
in lis earliest stages Is not hilcOus. though
at the bottom il is the same serpent thing
that il is at last. In the beginning il is
an artist, and the man begins think Il
will redeem my parents. Oh. will re-
purchase the old homestead. All! will |
not make my village To bud and blossom
as rose: Twill set my brothers and
sisters on high. What will | not do?'
How many things do men paint in the
sky which clouds cover and winds blow
away. and which fade out with the morn
ing that painted them?
| have noticed that men. when they
begin 10 make money suddenly and
largely, carry with them the instincts
and generosities of their youth; but
where DO you find man who begins TO
make money fast, who begins 10 pull it
in in heaps, who begins TO think OF large
interests from day to day, who shaves
and learns TO look upon men simply to
see what they will bear when put under
his knife and under his screw, who be-
gins 10 live with money and to gloat his
eyes upon money-where do you find
such man that does not begin to have
narrower feelings, and baser feelings,
and sordid feelings. and araricious feel
ings? Avarioc grinds man like emery.
Henry Ward Berher in New York
Worll.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-15
Waves Of the Ocean.

Ii was at sea for about twelve years of
my life. and have been through all
manner of sea storms i'm about all the
different seas in the known world. |
have seen il blow so hard that il was i'm
possible for man 10 put his head above
the ships weather rail, and il man got
into the rigging he would have to stay
there for lull before he could move up
or down. The heaviest or highest sea |
ever saw was in the Atlantic ocean, on q
passage from Montevideo. We Were
"hovc to- under bare poles for four
days; Tho sea was running twenty-seven
feet high. which makes the trough Of
the sea also twenty.seven feet. and 10
look up at the crcsts and down at the
sea seemed like looking fifty ar sixty
feet. But you may depend ON what
tell you. no ship ever lived in sea
running forty feet high. nor did anybody
ever s,r n wave running fifty miles an
hour. They do go fast, hut no faster
than the wind. and am not 50 sure Of
the wind going fifty miles an hour. The
heaviest gales ever encountered were in
the Atlantic. oil Bermuda, Cape Hat
teras and in the China sea.-George NJ.
Baker in Chicago News.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-15
Royalties on Patents.

There are fortunes made every year
In royalties on patents, and know of no
surer way of making money than TO in
vent a popular or useful article. That is
one of the reasons, perhaps, for the in
Vulnerable inventions. II a novel idea is
patented il becomes known by those who
seem to he watching the patent Office and
an oiIer is at once made for the purchase
of the right. II is not the greatest or
largest thing that is invented which
brings in the most revenue. The most
money seems 10 he i'm small articles. and
! know of such apparently insignificant
things as books. buttons and keys that
are paying immense royalties to the in
yentors. IL seems that the best inyen-
tions are made by accident or else by
those who have not not given previous
thought Ia Ihc idea IN question, but were
merely brought to it by some circum-
stance. generally of necessity, that arose.
Study, of course, causes the invention of
intricate machines. and TO a man of an
inventive turn Of mind there are certain
ways TO study objects with view to dis
covering or mventing better way Of ac-
complishing the same result. There are
some dangers TO inventive minds. as. for
instance, the invention of articles that
fail to become popular. Again, person
who has never known that he possessed
the inventive faculty suddenly conceives
an idea that is turned into successful in
vention. He makes some money from
it. but he naturally turns TO the endeavor
to make other inventions. Perhaps he is
never afterwards so successful, and finds
too late. after wasted time. that his first
invention was the result Of accident that
did not occur again. Nanny in
Globe Democrat.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-15
Photographing Flying GuIls.

An example OF the speed with which
pictures can now be produced is afforded
bya a photograph Of number Of flying
gulls taken at Southport by local
photographer. Mr.. Malin. The various
attitudes Of the birds are curious. Most
Of them have the wings spread in the or
thodox manner, but some of them are
caught in that curious position with the
wings hanging down. which, from the
shortness Of the time during which IL Is
maintained, the eye does not appear TO
catch. About sixty birds are shown
quite sharply and distinctly. London
Times.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-15
HENRY WATTERsoN says:

HENRY WATTERsoN says: 'Some
people estimate the ability of a periodi.
cal and the talent OF its editor by the
amount il contains Of original mattar.
IL is comparatively an easy task for a
frothy writer to spring.out a column OF
words upon any and all subjects. His
ideas may flow on in q weak washy.
everlasting flood. and the command Of
his language may enable him to tie
them together like q bunch OF onions,
and yet his paper may be but meageI
and poor concern. Indeed. the mere
writing part of editing a paper 10 but
a small portion OF the work. The care,
The time employed In selecting, is far
more important. and tn, fact of good
editor is better shown by his selections
than anything else, aud that, we
know, Is half the battle"
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-15
THE New Orleans Times. Demo

The New Orleans mes-Democrst
commenting on the death of Capt.
James b. Eads, say: 1.-The loss at any
time Of such q man would be a calam-
ity to mankind, but at t1is particular
time, in the full ripeness of his fame
rs q great engineer and scientist when
the crowning glory of his long and
useful life, that giant work which his
genius had conceived and which il
WAS his dearest wish to live lonr
enough to carry forward to triumphal
success, needed his master mind. his
guiding hand, his death is indeed de,
plorable." Regarding the jetties and
benefits resulting therefrom to the
Mississippi vallevy it says: This one
engineering enterprise Of his has add
ed 81, 800, ,0Oo, 900 to the wealth of farm.
ers and manufacturers Of this region,
which he opened to the largest steam
ers of the world"
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-15
Death In the GLASS.

Undoubtedly people very often do con-
tract disease by drinking from glasses
used by others. Just think how the
beer drinker is served in the ordinary
saloon. Look In on the crowd Of roughs
and sec them stagger up TO the bar and
take the horrid pug in their hands and
drain il to the last drop. Then see the
filthy wretch behind the bar take each
glass and make pretense Of rinsing it in
slop Of dirty water, which has done the
same service for the whole day before.
The mouth from which that glass has
been taken may be foul with loathsome
disease. Bartender In Globe Democrat.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-15

NOT In this world alone are they
having dynamite explosions and earth
quakes. A large chunk was knocked
of passing star she other night
supposed TO be the work Of refractory
communists and the deadly compound
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-15
Ancient EmbnImlng.

Come to study into the matter, the
ancienis knew nothing about embalming
the dead. They simply rolled EN- up
tight, corded 'em up well, and the at
mospbere did the rest. A body can nov
be embalmed so that II will resist decay
for thousand years.-Detroit Free
Press. -.r
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-15

The presence Of wild geese in the north.
ern part Of Nebraska at this season is, ac-
cording TO "the oldest inhabitant," In.
dicative Of short winter.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-15
SNM't AcCN sSssDi.ln. Slsni. !: 'ss si

thousands suffering from Asthma. Con-
sumption, Coughs, etc. Did you ever try
Acker's English Remedy II is the best
preparation known for all Lung Troubles,
sold on positive guarantee at lOc., 6Oc.
John Wright, Druggist.